The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1887-10-29

villages, until we reach Louisiana,
and still our train speeds on regard
less of State lines, passing cypress
forests fringed with gray moss,
while now and then the gulf comes
in view until we reach New Orleans.
In New Orleans l stopped at Hotel
Nanderhank which is on the Euro
pean plan and located on Magazine
street, near Canal. New Orleans
has fewer hotels than any city of its
size in the country, but it can and
does accommodate thousands of peo-
pie every winter. Many families
have furnished rooms for rent and
visitors generally, as well as many
of the. citizens, take their meals at
restaurants.
New Orleans is located on the left
bank of the Mississippi, about 100
miles by river from the gulf, and has
a population of perhaps 100000,
composed of various nationalities.
The city of New Orleans is an excep-
ton to all other cities in the country
that are located on rivers. The
Mississippi is higher than the
ground ON which the city is built,
and the water is kept back by levees
several feet high. 1t is impossible
to drain into the river, so the city is
drained out into Lake Ponchratrain.
There is not a cellar in the city of
New Orleans. Think of city with
out cellar! The ground is SO sat
urated with water that cellars can
not be used. Neither can they bury
under ground for the same reason.
A grave fills with water before they
can get it dug. All their dead are
buried in vaults or tombs built above
ground. The cemeteries are all built
after the style of city, in blocks
and squares, through which run
streets and alleys and is in reality a
"city of the dead"
The canals and sewers by which
the city is drained have but little
fall toward the lake and the water
runs very slowly. In order to accel-
crate its movement the canals and
sewers are flooded several times each
day by means of powerful wheels
turning in the mains, and the opera
ton and power produced is similar
to the wheels of a steamer in mo-
ton. The streets are narrow, with
the exception of Canal, but substan-
TALLY paved with large blocks of
stone from one to two feet square
and about one foot thick. The
broad fiat surface of the rocks are
very slippery when wet and hard for
teams to stand on when pulling.
Canal street is the Broadway of New
Orleans and You are never truly in
New Orleans until you reach Canal
street, for it is the centre and start
ing point for almost everything.
Canal street is in reality three in
one, for the street car tracks as well
as the steam cars are in the centre
with paved street on each side.
No matter what street car you get
on, or in what part of the city you
start it will always bring you to Ca
nal street If you stay on it long
enough. On Canal street of an i'm
portant day from rs to 100 cars can
be seen at one sight. Canal street
divides the French part of the city
from the American, and all the
streets start and are numbered from
this point.
The postofflce and custom house
building is on Canal just opposite
Magazine street and occupies one
whole block. Henry Clay's monu-
ment is farther down, just between
ST. Charles and Regalets. The Cot
ton Exchange, about the only build
ing in the city on which there is any
architecture displayed, is on St.
Charles street. The headquarters
of the Louisiana State Lottery is in
fine building on St. Charles, and
their tickets are on sale in every sa-
loon and cigar window in the city.
Further out st. Charles is Lafayette
Square, in which is statue of Ben
jamin Franklin Still further out
is the Robert E. Lee monument sur
rounded by beautiful grounds always
green. In the beautiful square in
front of the cathedral stands an
equestrian statue of Gen. jackson.
The battle field of New Orleans on
which was fought on the 8th of Jan
uary, 1915, the famous battle in
which bales of cotton we're used for
breastworks, and which was fought
after peace had been declared, is
, about six miles below the city and
still shows marks of the terrible con-
test.
!. A visitor to New Orleans should
never leave without visit to the
French market, and the most inter-
esting time to see it is from to s
o'clock on Sunday morning. The
U. S. Mint attracts great many
} visitors, but the place to see the fin
est and largest mint in the world is
in San Francisco. The principal
/ pleasure resorts in New Orleans are
, Spanish Fort, Shell Beach, the West
end and Lake Ponchartrain.
There is nothing late or new about
the architecture of the city and the
7 buildings seem to have been built
+ more with an eye TO comfort thar
e beauty. Almost every house is pro
2 vided with double verandas or bal
. comics over which vines and flowers
s are trained. Every house is proyid
!. ed with one or more cisterns il
n which to run rain water. These els
f terms are not dug in the ground, Blu
y built on upright timbers and in ap
/ pearance similar to a large barrel O
h tank. They are generally built il
) the back yard and the majority O
/, them are painted green.
j. A visit to the wharf at the hea'
n of Canal street is always interesting
e to a stranger for he can there Sc
h sights that are not to be seen in an
g other place. The large army of ne
il groes, trunks, carts, floats and mule
that are as busy as bees loading an
le unloading these large steamers an
n ships is sight worth seeing.
n Capt. Jas. B. Eads and his jettie
n have done wonders for New Orleap